OHR Press Releases
12/19/2003
Brcko Supervisor Appoints Two Councilors to the Brcko Assembly
Acting Supervisor of Brcko Gerhard Sontheim today appointed Prof. PhD Milan Tomic and Mr. Halil Ljuca to the positions of the Interim Assembly Councilors to serve until elections are held for the District Assembly.
The two newly filled vacancies had occurred following the appointments of Councilors Branko Damjanac and Ahmed Dervisevic to the posit [...]
12/19/2003
Brcko Legal Reform Office Completes Its Mandate
The Brcko Legal Reform Office (BLRO) has completed its mandate and will close on 31 December 2003.
The BLRO is the successor office to the Brcko Law Revision Commission (BLRC), which was established in June 1999 within the mandate of the Brcko Arbitration Final Award. Under the auspices of OHR Brcko the BLRC drafted reform legislation, and develop [...]
12/17/2003
High Representative Sends Intelligence Law to Parliament
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, in accordance with Article 66 of the Rules of Procedure of the Council of Ministers, today sent a draft Law on the Intelligence Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina to both BiH Houses of Parliament for consideration and adoption by 1 March 2004.
On Tuesday evening, BiH Prime Minister Adnan Terzic, and his Deput [...]
12/13/2003
The Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council says Mostar should be a single city Administration
The Peace Implementation Council discussed the results of the Mostar Reform Commission yesterday in Brussels.Senior Deputy High Representative Werner Wnendt informed the PIC that agreement on a broad range of issues had been reached in the commission, making it possible for Commission Chairman Norbert Winterstein to make clear recommendations to th [...]
12/11/2003
Property Law Implementation Ratio in October 2003 stands at 91 per cent in the Federation of BiH and the RS
PLIP agencies (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR and CRPC) are announcing today the PLIP Statistics for the month of October. The overall implementation ratio stands now at the same level of 91 per cent in both the Federation of BiH and the Republika Srpska, while the implementation ratio in Brcko District stands at 96 per cent. As at end October, 199,913 habitable [...]
12/09/2003
“BiH Open For Investments”
Speaking at an investment conference in the City of London, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday called on international investors to learn from the success of foreign banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and enter the market as the difficult reforms of the last few years begin to open up real investment opportunities. Comparing BiH to Pol [...]
12/09/2003
High Representative Appoints International Prosecutor to the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH
The High Representative has appointed John McNair as international prosecutor to the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
12/05/2003
First Meeting of the Joint Executive Board of the BiH Special War Crimes Chamber Implementation Project
The BiH Minister of Justice, Slobodan Kovac, and the OHR’s Senior Deputy High Representative in charge of the Rule of Law Pillar, Bernard Fassier, this afternoon co-chaired the first meeting of the Executive Board responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the BiH authorities and the International Community in setting up the Court of BiH’s Specia [...]
12/04/2003
High Representative Welcomes NATO Ministers’ Positive Response to BiH
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Thursday welcomed the announcement by NATO’s defence ministers that Bosnia and Herzegovina had made significant progress on defence reform, and will therefore be considered for membership in NATO’s Partnership for Peace at the organisation’s Istanbul Summit scheduled for the end of June next year. BiH will [...]
12/04/2003
Two seats to fill in the Brcko District Interim Assembly
In order to restore the Brcko District Interim Assembly to its full composition of 29 councilors, and to ensure that the diversity of people in the District is adequately represented, the Acting Supervisor of Brcko Gerhard Sontheim invites political parties and independent candidates to submit for consideration suitably qualified candidates who wil [...]